How Mike Schur Avoids ‘Trump Bulls–‘ in ‘The Good Place’ Writers Room

“The Good Place” mastermind Michael Schur doesn’t shy away from talking about the morality and consequences of the current political environment on Twitter, but he believes it’s important to keep the show’s own sense of morality insulated from all of that. Set in the afterlife, the four-season NBC comedy is a philosophical deep-dive into what it means to be a good person, but aside from the occasional joke about Chick-Fil-A, it largely avoids the day-to-day political realities of life on Earth. “This show was conceived of and written before any of this nonsense happened, so it’s not a reaction to this, it’s a contiguous or concurrent event,” Schur told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Thursday. Also Read: Kristen Bell Says Another Season of 'Veronica Mars' Hinges on Finding 'Holes in Everyone's Schedules' “We try to avoid all Trump bulls—, frankly,” he said, calling the endless hum of political anxiety “a virus — or maybe a fungus — that crawls over and seeps into and infects everything that it gets near.” “I was like ‘We can’t function as a show if all we’re doing is talking about this.’ So we have like appointed times where we discuss...

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